1989 adverts

Golf Portable: Small by design - big in business

Goupil - or more properly Societé de Micro-informatique et Telecommunications (SMT) Goupil - was a French company that had been established in 1979 and which mostly produced computers for the French government....

I think, therefore IBM won't get my PC order

Atari released its first IBM compatible - the £400 entry-level 8086 Atari PC - in June 1987, although it had been previewed at the Atari show held in London during April. Atari's chairman, Jack Tramiel...

Schneider Computers... Stand out from the crowd!

Alan Sugar sometimes claimed that Amstrad's early success was because it didn't try to crack the European or US market, a move which almost bankrupted Acorn. Eventually though the company had to expand,...

The New Standard for Personal Scientific and Technical Visualisation Workstations

U-Microcomputers of Warrington in Cheshire, UK, had established itself as a supplier of Motorola 68000-based single- and multi-user systems aimed at the software developer market. Here it's moved up...

Europe's best-kept business secret - Now revealed in Britain

It's the beginning of the end for Commodore, as the company is now fully on the IBM-compatible gravy train, leaving behind its roots as the company which launched the world's first modern PC in January...

At Micronet we're really talking

Launched at the beginning of 1983, Micronet was a Viewdata dial-up service created as a Prestel project of East Midland Allied Press, the publishing and printing group. Micronet had its roots in the...

CompuStar - it's number one

Wells American had started out as Intertec Data Systems, which had been famous in the late 1970s and early 1980s for its SuperBrain twin-Z80-based all-in-one micro, which looked a bit like one of the...

The Archimedes A3000

The A3000 was an update of the original Archimedes - also known in at least some parts of the press as the ARM, or more simply the Arc or Archie - which had been launched in 1987 and which first started...

A pocket PC at a pocket-sized price

Sometimes considered as the very first true IBM-compatible portable, Atari's IBM-compatible pocket PC was originally known as the PocketPC, but it was eventually christened the Portfolio specifically...

Tulip sharpens your image

This is an advert from Tulip, formerly known as Compudata of the Netherlands, for its LT 286 laptop, based on Intel's CMOS 80C286 CPU plus the 80C287 maths co-processor. It was Tulip's first laptop. ...

Psion MC400

Launched in 1989, the Psion MC 400 - for Mobile Computer - was Psion's first entry into the nascent "netbook" market. Although based on a CMOS version of Intel's 8086 - the 80C86 - the MC 400 wasn't actually...